Head of Data Platform Engineering & Architecture

Vizient, Inc.; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. in Edina, Minnesota, invites an experienced leader to define and execute the enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps with a strong emphasis on Azure Databricks, SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.

You will lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable data services, drive modernization, governance, and platform-as-a-product practices while mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps with a focus on Azure Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.
• Lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, observable, and high-performing enterprise data services.
• Drive Azure Databricks platform engineering, including platform architecture, administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, access controls, workload management, automation, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Establish Platform-as-a-Product practices, reusable engineering patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, and self-service capabilities that improve engineering productivity and platform adoption.
• Lead modernization of enterprise data platforms and migration of appropriate workloads to Azure and Lakehouse architectures while strengthening resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Establish platform governance, security, data classification, lineage, auditing, access management, and compliance controls in collaboration with Data Governance, Security, IAM, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Enable scalable platform capabilities for analytics, data products, machine learning, AI, and operational reporting.
• Establish service-level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement practices.
• Manage platform investments, budgets, capacity forecasts, vendor relationships, licensing, and FinOps practices to optimize technology consumption and operational costs.
• Develop and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams while fostering collaboration, automation, innovation, and operational excellence.

Job description

Vizient, Inc. in Edina, Minnesota, invites an experienced leader to define and execute the enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps with a strong emphasis on Azure Databricks, SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.

You will lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable data services, drive modernization, governance, and platform-as-a-product practices while mentoring engineers.